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  • SarahLK
    SarahLK last edited by Nov 11, 2013, 2:04 PM

    I've noticed something a little odd in my organic search traffic lately.  Looking at several websites that target the Minneapolis area, I'm seeing some organic searches come in (typically using head keywords - no geo-modifier) from Mountain View, CA.  There's no way we are truly ranking well on these terms in California, so it certainly feels like Google sniffing around.  I was worried that perhaps they were checking into penalizing us or something, but we've actually seen upticks in search traffic lately.  This traffic is not showing up in Google Analytics, just Adobe SiteCatalyst.  In the past, spikes from random locations were probably some sort of crawler, like the preview bot, but these are coming in as searches with (for now) keyword data.

    Has anyone else seen anything like this?

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      SarahLK last edited by Nov 25, 2013, 2:14 PM Nov 25, 2013, 2:14 PM

      I'm guessing it may just be a new bot.  Looking at the old data, we did get some similar organic traffic from Mountain View in the past - it was just a visit or two a month as opposed to the recent spikes.

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        S.S.N last edited by Nov 11, 2013, 3:51 PM Nov 11, 2013, 3:51 PM

        started seeing Mountain View, CA here as well - as of a few days ago.

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        • TopFloor
          TopFloor last edited by Nov 11, 2013, 3:25 PM Nov 11, 2013, 3:25 PM

          We used a trial of Hubspot several months back and I saw a fair amount of traffic from Mountain View that did not show up in our GA account. Chalked it up to crawlers on the site. Don't know if that helps you at all, but you're not alone!

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